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When it comes to designing and building a reel to cope with the extreme pressures
entailed when playing huge fish, it all boils down to quality and performance.
This is no time to cut corners and try to save on production costs – like
The Truth About
Big Game Reels
many of our competitors do. Only the best quality materials and components
can be used to ensure that the reel performs as it was designed to.
It all begins with the frame and side plates.
Penn International V-Series frames, sideplates
and spools are precision machined
they head down a one hundred yard long
from solid forgings of a high-strength, but
anodizing tank. At the end of their journey
lightweight aircraft grade aluminium alloy.
No half graphite or plastic bridge
these components emerge bearing the rich
gold colour that has been synonymous
covers, just high-strength alloys. Penn
International have been referred
to as the Gold Standard in big
game reels and one aspect of this
with Penn and with the finest quality reel
on the market. Internal components are
crafted in an even more rigorous manner
“Theirs”
Two-Piece Side Plate; Part Aluminium,
Part Plastic
Penn
One-Piece, Solid Machined Aluminium
designation has been our traditional
and rich-looking Gold
Anodising. Frames, side plates,
than the frames. Our gears begin their
life on a Swiss-made ‘Gear Hobber’ where
the stainless gear blanks are precision
machined to tolerances so tight that our
Main Gears
Penn 80VSW “Their” 130
and spools are carefully
gears meet NASA-grade standards. As for
placed onto a conveyor after
being hand-polished to
the guts, compare the gears from a Penn
International to any other Big Game reel
on the market and you will find that Penn
High Speed 52% wider
Low Speed 40% wider
a mirror-like finish, where
quality and durability simply outmatch the
competition.
Pinion Gears / Spindle
Penn
High Speed Gear machined as part of
Spindle Low Speed Gear permanently
pressed onto the Solid Spindle.
Stainless Spindle engages the drag
with a gear-cut machined, solid piece,
keyed directly into the Drag Plate.
“Theirs”
Spindle engages with only a single small Pin.
Pieces held together with a Pin.
Dura Drag TM
With more and more anglers fishing lighter lines for bigger fish, it
became apparent to our engineers that a revolutionary new drag
system needed to be produced. Years of
extensive research has brought us the
Penn Dura Drag – way ahead of its time.
Durability
Scientifi c tests prove that the new
Penn Dura-Drag performance is
unsurpassed.
In laboratory testing, the new Dura-
Drag sustained its original drag settings
after 100-hours of drag ‘burn-time’,
while our closest competitors’ materials
dropped by more than 35 per cent.
Compare the charts and you will see
Penn Dura-Drag is the most consistent
and long-lasting drag material on the
Du
ra-D
-Dra
rag
market. In terms of performance and
smoothness, both light-tackle and big
game anglers will greatly appreciate the
lack of an initial surge in drag-pressure,
common in other drag materials.
Smoother start-ups and more consistent
drag pressures translate into fewer
pulled hooks. For anglers fi shing the
new Penn Dura-Drag, broken lines and
lost fi sh due to intermittent and jerky
drags are a thing of the past.
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